126 BOTANY. 
CUCURBITACE A. 
EvateriuM* Wriegutu, Gray (Pl. Wright. 2, p. 61).—Stem slender, 
pubescent; leaves reniform or cordate, obscurely 5-lobed or angled; sinus 
deep; apex sometimes distinctly triangular-acuminate, slightly scabrous on 
the under surface and nearly smooth above; margin ciliate, and sometimes 
slightly and remotely denticulate; male flowers rather few, in a slender 
raceme, on capillary pedicels, abundantly covered with minute, globular, 
stalked glands (the pedicels of which are manifest on the margins of the 
corolla-lobes) ; corolla adnate to the calyx, the lobes of which are reduced 
to mere teeth; fruit 1-14’ long, 6” in diameter, covered with glandular, 
hairy prickles.—Cienega, Ariz. (581). Beyond doubt identical with 951 of 
Mex. Bound. Survey. 
APODANTHERAT UNDULATA, Gray (PI. Wright. 2, p. 60).—Trailing vine, 
several feet long. Fruit 3-4’ in diameter. —Valley of the Rio Grande and 
Eastern Arizona (373). 
Cucursira { pierrata, Gray (Pl. Wright. 2, p.60).—“ Root large, fleshy; 
* ELATERIUM, Linn.—Flowers monecious. Male flowers ina long raceme. Calyx-tube urceolate, 
campanulate, or elongate-cylindrical. Corolla salver-shaped, tube short or elongated, inflated, or 
cylindrical; lobes oblong, linear or lanceolate. Filaments united into an elongated column; anthe:s 
mnited into a small oblong or globose head; linear cells sigmoid, flexuose; connective sometimes 
produced beyond the cells. No rudiment of an ovary. Female flowers solitary. Calyx and corolla as 
in the male flowers. No rudimentary stamens. Ovary obliquely ovoid, rostrate, hispid, or echinate, 
1-6-celled, often 3-celled with 2 cells many-ovuled and the third empty, rarely 4-celled with one or two 
of them empty, or with 4 small cells, 2 above and 2 below; style columnar or filiform, contracted under 
the large capitate stigma; ovules in cells 2-many, or a single ovule in each of the cellules. Fruit 
obliquely ovoid, rostrate, gibbous, fleshy, 1-many-celled (‘dehiscent at the apex,” Gray). Seeds flat, 
with the margins often crenulate—Annual, climbing herbs, smooth or pubescent. Leaves cordate, entire, 
lobed or parted. Tendrils 2-3-parted.—BENTHAM & HOOKER. 
tAPODANTHERA, Arn.—F lowers monecious or diccious. Male flowers racemose. Tube of the 
calyx funnel-shaped or cylindrical, dilated at the base, lobes 5, subulate. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-parted; 
segments oblong or linear. Stamens 3 or 4, sessile in the throat of the calyx; anthers linear, connate in 
the middle; one, or two 1-celled, the remainder 2-celled, cells nearly straight, connective not produced. 
No rudimentary ovary. Female flowers solitary. Calyx as in the male, but more urceolate. Corolla 
like the male. No rudimentary stamens! Ovary ovoid, with 3 placentas; style columnar, with a3-lobed 
fleshy stigma; ovules many, horizontal. Fruit fleshy, ovoid.—Climbing or prostrate herbs, pubescent 
or hispid. Leaves round, reniform, entire, or somewhat lobed. Flowers rather. large, yellow.—BEN- 
THAM & HOOKER. 
¢Cucursira, Linn.—Flowers monecions, all solitary. Male flower:—Calyx-tube campanulate, 
rarely elongated, lobes 5; simple or foliaceous, Corolla campanulate, cleft to - below the middle. 
lobes recurved. Stamens 3, inserted in the bottom cf the calyx; filaments free; 
anthers linear, confluent into a head, one, 1-celled; two, 2-celled; cells Soa aed flexuose, 
No rudiments of an ovary. Female flowers Dalya and corolla as in the male. Three rndimentary 
stamens in the bottom of the calyx. Ovary oblong, with 3 placentas; style short, stigmas 3, 2-lobed 
or forked; ovules many, horizontal. Fruit a berry, fleshy, often with a thick rind, indehiscen! 
